The Legacy of Arthur A. Schomburg
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Carole Boston Weatherford |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1536220639 |
“A must-read for a deeper understanding of a well-connected genius who enriched the cultural road map for African Americans and books about them.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world. In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.
Author | : Victoria Ortiz |
Publisher | : Schomburg Center for Black |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1986 |
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ISBN | : 9780871042996 |
Author | : Vanessa K. Valdés |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2017-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438465130 |
Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad. A Black Puerto Ricanborn scholar, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (18741938) was a well-known collector and archivist whose personal library was the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He was an autodidact who matched wits with university-educated men and women, as well as a prominent Freemason, a writer, and an institution-builder. While he spent much of his life in New York City, Schomburg was intimately involved in the cause of Cuban and Puerto Rican independence. In the aftermath of the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898, he would go on to cofound the Negro Society for Historical Research and lead the American Negro Academy, all the while collecting and assembling books, prints, pamphlets, articles, and other ephemera produced by Black men and women from across the Americas and Europe. His curated library collection at the New York Public Library emphasized the presence of African peoples and their descendants throughout the Americas and would serve as an indispensable resource for the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. By offering a sustained look at the life of one of the most important figures of early twentieth-century New York City, this first book-length examination of Schomburgs life suggests new ways of understanding the intersections of both Blackness and latinidad.
Author | : Nancy Cunard |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-09-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781946963598 |
Reprint Edition of the 1934 Edition. This is the abridged edition of Nancy Cunard's classic collection. In 1934, Nancy Cunard self-published this volume in an edition of 1000 copies through her Hours Press. She was an odd source considering she was a wealthy white Englishwoman. Nonetheless, the volume was very well respected. Chapters in the book cover "Slavery," "Patterns of Negro Life and Expression," "Negro History and Literature," "Education and Law," and more. Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, William Carlos Williams, Samuel Becket, and others contributed to the text. Mostly neglected in Cunard's own time, Negro has attained the status of a cult classic. The list of contributors--represented in poetry, prose, translations, and music--is a who's who of 20th-century arts and literature: Louis Armstrong, Samuel Beckett, Norman Douglas, Nancy Cunard herself, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, William Plomer, Arthus Schomburg, William Carlos Williams, and more. In its subject and international approach, Negro was generations ahead of its time. Its exploration of black achievement and black anger takes the reader from life in America to the West Indies, South America, Europe, and Africa. Though very much of its time, Negro is also timeless in its depiction of oppressive social and political conditions as well as in its homage to myriad contributions by black artists and thinkers. The story behind Negro: An Anthology is as legendary as its contents. In the late 1920s, Nancy Cunard, socially conscious, British, white, upper-class nonconformist and heir to the famed Cunard Shipping Line, married a black man and single-handedly put out 100 copies of a groundbreaking anthology. The work contained essays, poetry, short stories, and political propaganda from the era's finest Afro-American writers, along with valuable contributions by several white writers, including William Carlos Williams, Samuel Beckett, and Theodore Dreiser. In this invaluable reprint, we can see how broadly Cunard's interest in the "Negro question" ran. In chapters dealing with slavery, history, education, and the arts--as well as Latin America, Europe, and Africa--Cunard includes the poetry of Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown; Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological study of the "Characteristics of Negro Expressions"; James Ford's legendary "Communism and the Negro"; and glimpses into the conditions and folk customs of blacks in Trinidad, Barbados, Cuba, Brazil, Uruguay, Paris, and West Africa. The most poignant writing, however, is her own account of the infamous case of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of innocent blacks falsely accused of raping two white women, which resulted in their near-execution. Although much of the communist-friendly content of Negro may seem naive by today's standards, the collection still stands as one of the most unique and esoteric compendiums of 20th-century Afro-American literature. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
Author | : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Elinor Des Verney Sinnette |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780814321577 |
A biography of the pioneering collector whose work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture.
Author | : Arthur A. Schomburg |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781258977429 |
This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
Author | : Drusilla Dunjee Houston |
Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780933121010 |
First published in 1926, Drusilla Dunjee Houston (a self-taught historian), describes the origin of civilization and establishes links among the ancient Black populations in Arabia, Persia, Babylonia, and India. In each case she concludes that the ancient Blacks who inhabited these areas were all culturally related.
Author | : Ada Myriam Felicié-Soto |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2015-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1508165750 |
Arturo and the Hidden Treasure is a story based on the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, a Puerto Rican who was a historian, a writer, a collector and a civil rights activist. Schomburg brought to light the great contributions of black people to humanity.